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A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.comSun, 21 Jun 2015 21:00:41 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1By: rbeardhttp://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=49&cpage=1#comment-402
Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:17:23 +0000http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=49#comment-402“Metaphor”, as I have always heard it used, is not a specific but a general term, as the AHD notes, “A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in ‘a sea of troubles’ or ‘All the world’s a stage’ (Shakespeare).” Thus a metaphor could be a simile, a hyperbole (as in the first example here), synecdoche (as in the second), or any other form of comparison.

There probably is a specific rhetorical name for this but it still escapes me.

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Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:31:20 +0000http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=49#comment-393Suggestion: Rather than making up a phrase like “direct simile” you could use a term that already addresses the situation: metaphor.
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